Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

Among those kinds of food which the good housekeeper should scrupulously banish from her table, is that of hot leavened bread....I believe it more often lays the foundation of diseases of the stomach, than any other kind of nourishment, used among us.